Latent Space
Shopify’s AI Phase Transition: 2026 Usage Explosion, Unlimited Opus-4.6 Token Budget, Tangle, Tangent, SimGym — with Mikhail Parakhin, Shopify CTO
April 22, 20261h 12m · 12,670 words
Show notes
Early bird discounts for the San Francisco World’s Fair, the biggest AIE gathering of the year, end today - prices will go up by ~$500 tonight so do please lock in ASAP! From near-universal AI tool adoption inside Shopify to internal systems for ML experimentation, auto-research, customer simulation, and ultra-low-latency search, Mikhail Parakhin joins us for a deep dive into what it actually looks like when a 20-year-old, $200B software company goes all-i…
Highlighted moments
the anti-pattern is running multiple agents too many agents in parallel that don't communicate with each other that's almost useless uh compared to just fewer agents and burns tokens very efficiently uh setting up the right critique loop especially with the high quality models where one agent does something the other one ideally with a different model critiques it
“clearly the overall ci cd in general and the interaction with the code repository right now is the clearly the sort of the the main issue and the bottleneck for us”
“first implementation of sydney didn't even have open ai model under it it was it was uh turing megatron um microsoft uh and the nvidia collaboration model”
“what we learned in those experiments is you want to be polite but you want to be a little bit on edge and that draws people in”
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